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TIL Penn & Teller created a Sega Game in the 90s called ‘Desert Bus.’ The Objective is to drive in a straight line from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada. The Journey takes aprox 8 hours, cannot be paused and you are awarded 1 point every time you complete it.

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6EYmQ TIL Plants are capable of complex decision-making
5VX98 TIL: In 1994 Karl Wendlinger crashed his formula 1 car in the Monaco Grand Prix and survived a crash that rated 360g’s
gDoW TIL Ireland exported enormous quantities of food during the height of the 1840’s Great Famine, “more than enough grain crops to feed the population.”
wLWyM TIL a 9-man Special Forces team landed on top of 10,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and fought their way out after making barricades from enemy corpses and jumping off a cliff.
JYKxm TIL There are more captive tigers in the USA (5000-10000) than there are remaining in the wild (3,900).